Leo ehrlich



i UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

LEO EIIRLICH, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN ROLL PAPER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED PAPER PRINTER AND CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,597, dated August 6, 1889.

Application filed October 6, .1888- Sen'al No. 287,435. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEO EHRLICH, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Combined Paper Printers and Cutters, 0f which the following is a full, clear,l

and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which Figure I is a front elevation of my iinproved machine. Fig. IIis a side elevation. Fig. III is a rear elevation.

My invention relates to an improved device for holding, printing, and cutting wrapping-paper; and myinvention consists in features of novelty, hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring tothe drawings, 1 represents the base, 2 the end pieces or standards, and 3v the paper roll mounted on the standards, as usual.

4 represents a knife secured to spring-arms 5 on a pair of spring-pieces-one at each end of the paper roll. The knife is located in front of thef roll of paper, and behind the roll of paper is a printing-roller 6 and an inkingroller 7. These rollers are preferably mounted on spring-arms S, also von the pair of spring-pieces. The arms 5 and 8, at the respective ends of the machine, are 'formed of one piece of wire, coiled, as shown at 9, around a pin 10 and extending upward on opposite sides of the paper roll, as shown clearly in Fig. II. The tendency of the arms 5 is to spring inward to automatically keep the knife against the roll of paper, and the tendency of the arms 8 is to automatically keep the printing-roller against the paper. It will thus be seen that when the paper roll is turned in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. II the paper will first be printed by the roller 6, and then may be severed against the knife 4. In this wayavery cheap and effective combined paper cutter and printer is made. The printer-roller also has the function of a tension-roller.

The inking and printing rollers are preferably each formed of two separate pieces or members, one consisting of a spindle andthe other a sleeve to tit over the spindle, as shown 5o in Fig. III. The sleeves carry the printing and inking forms, and may be taken off and applied at will.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination of the standards for supporting the paper roll, the pair of springpieces-one at each end of the machine-having arms 5 and 8, a knife mounted on the ends of the arms 5, and a roller mounted on the ends of-1 the arms S, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the standards for supporting the paper-roll, the pins-one at each end of the machine-the pair of spring-pieces coiled around the pins having arms 5 and 8, a knife mounted on the ends of the arms 5, and a roller mounted on the ends of the arms 8, substantially as described.

` 3. rI he combination of the standards for supporting the paper roll, the pair of springpieces-one at each end of the machine-having arms 5 and 8, a knife mounted on the ends of the arms 5, and a printing-roller and an inking-roller mounted on the ends of the arms 8, substantially as described.

4. The combination, .with the base and the standards, of the pins l0, located-at the lower ends of the standards, the pair of springpieces having coils 9 around the pins and provided with arms -5 and S, the knife 4, secured 8o to the ends of the arms 5, the printing-roller 6, journaled to the ends of the arms 8, and the inking-roller 7, journalcd to the arms S beneath the printing-roller, substantially as described.

LEO EIIRLICII.

In presence of- OcrAviUs KNIGHT, HERVEY S. KNIGHT. 

